Definitions
the outer portion of the skin, formed by epithelial tissue that rests on the dermis
What is the epidermis?
Two layers of skin
What is the epidermis and dermis?
at or near the back of the body
What is posterior?
two sections of the hair
What are shaft and root?
two types of skin glands
what are sebaceous and sweat?
What is hemopoiesis?
Two layers of the 5 layers of the epidermis containing living cells
What are the basale and spinosum?
farther from the midline (side view)
What is lateral?
3 concentric layers of the hair in order from inside to outside
what are the medulla, cortex, and cuticle?
two types of sweat glands
What are merocrine and apocrine?
a junction between flat bones of the skull
What is a suture?
Layer of the skin containing keratinized cells
What is the epidermis?
close to the surface of the body
What is superficial?
makes hard keratin hard
What is sulfur?
where you find apocrine sweat glands
What are armpit and pubic regions?
A projection on a bone
What is a process?
a hair cell containing no keratin (location)
Where is the matrix?
nearer to the attachment of the limb/structure to the trunk
What is proximal?
the reason some hair grows faster than others
What are longer and shorter rest stages
secretions of apocrine glands empty here
what is the hair folicle?
A bone with many small spaces or cavities surrounding the bone
What is a cancellous bone?
5 layers of the epidermis bottom to top
stratum basale, spinosum, granulosum, lucidum, and corneum
Farther from the attachment of the limb/structure to the trunk
What is distal?
the process by which matrix cells take in melanin
What is phagocytosis?
the oil secreted by the sebaceous glands
What is sebum?